»Elegy and Meditation

I. Elegy

The marionettes from the master’s operas float on the waters of the Danube. The flow of the streams keep bringing new visions and memories. Sometimes new musical motives interpolate with thematic material based on Joseph Haydn’s Piano Sonata No.4 in G minor. From the bottom of the currents, we hear neoclassical, post-impressionist and other thematic material based on polymodal and polytonic scales. The Elegy’s structure could be confused with a spontaneous free form, but, nevertheless, a hidden rondo is the underlying connective material between the ever renewing thematic elements.

II. Meditation

An introspective postludium which helps us to evaluate the enormous contribution which Haydn made to the history of music. At the same time, it is a quiet celebration of his legacy.«

(Lalo Schifrin)